After being teleported to the ship, Lasarra tried to warn the Templar but died as the parasitic larva erupted from her body. Shortly afterwards, it began infesting the local animals kept onboard by the protoss and hid within the ventilation shafts where it found a safe location to mature into a queen. Kerrigan gave her the name Niadra and tasked her with eliminating all the protoss onboard the ship. Niadra and her growing brood moved through the ship destroying the protoss, Niadra herself continuing to evolve and grow her powers by consuming the specimens in the ship.

Niadra on the ship's bridge

After reaching the bridge and destroying the last protoss on the ship, Niadra and her brood became the only occupants of the craft. She attempted to contact Kerrigan to inform her of this, but her communications were not responded to. With few other options, Niadra decided to continue the Queen of Blades' last directives: to survive, grow her brood, and destroy the protoss, until the day came when her queen needed her again.[2]

"I remember you well, o' Queen of Blades. I remember the purpose you gave me. I took a protoss ship in your name. I slew everyone onboard. And I never heard your voice again. But your purpose remains, o' queen. As long as any protoss remain, I will hunt them."

Niadra never heard Kerrigan's voice again, but the directives she gave her remained, so she vowed that as long as any protoss live, she would hunt them. Eventually, she took her brood to an abandoned terran base on the planet Adena, hoping to lure terrans there to expand her brood to fight the protoss. A renegade Terran Dominion group landed on the planet, and Niadra sprung her trap, attacking their marines and placing a larva in their commander, hoping to infest their battlecruiser. The larva was successful in getting in their dropship, but the transport was shot down by Admiral Urun of the Daelaam in orbit. Niadra instead turned her attention to a psionic terran in the squad named Elms, who she saw as a powerful tool for her brood. Niadra sent her broods to retrieve her.[3]

Niadra confronts Urun

She gave orders to her broods, but Elms was able to pick up on the psionic communications and move her forces accordingly to counter them. Her broods were pushed back when Urun arrived on the surface with a large number of protoss forces, but they amassed for a counterattack.[4] Pushing through the protoss and terran lines, Niadra soon came face to face with Urun and his forces.[5]

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As a broodmother, Niadra is a ranged support attacker. She is unsuited to fight enemies alone, and must rely on other units to fight. Niadra is able to quickly breed zerg units to fight for her, and has a regeneration aura that rapidly heals nearby allies. As she continues to consume biomass and evolve, the control she provides and thus the army she can command increases, as does her HP.

Niadra is a competent strategist,[8] and is extremely loyal to Kerrigan, even without the Queen of Blades giving her direct orders.[9] To this end, she is fixated on wiping out the protoss, as it was the last directive that Kerrigan gave her.[3] She has a motherly demeanor to her brood.[9] She regards terrans as being a species driven by greed.[3]